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Just quietly, I’m looking forward to seeing updates on our blog.

Is our correspondent ready for another year??

I hope you’ve been saving up on sleep and have all morning meetings and appointments cancelled while its on so that rather than stay up we can just feel the excitement via your writings!!

I love it!! Sitting here at 12:55am waiting for Australia to walk in and I can’t wait for the sport to start!!

So the opening ceremony in good, and actually there was some really impressive stuff take place tonight, but I think the best thing about it is that it means very soon all the sport will start!!

I’m really excited to watch sports that I don’t watch all that often outside the Olympics.

I also have a video projector for the weekend and after setting it up to watch the opening ceremony it will stay set up all weekend to watch the sport!

One minute and thirty four seconds… that all that separates Cadel from winning the Yellow Jersey and being the first Aussie to take out Le Tour de France.

I’m going to be up late again tonight! If you only watch one stage of Le tour, tonight’s gotta be the one. Cadel probably wont start his time trial until about midnight but it’ll be worth it!

1:34…

Whilst this could be referring to my continued efforts at fitness, it’s also the title of a movie we saw this evening.

It’s quite funny, with a number of ‘guffaws’, but I wasn’t moved to hold the seat in front of me, whilst choking with laughter, which is my mark of a ‘classic film’ (see Hot Fuzz).
It had many of the elements of the other Simon Pegg films (such as Dylan Moran), but missed a few others (Nick Frost, and “you’ve got red on you”).

Well worth a DVD viewing, but probably not worth $15. We used some movie vouchers that we’d been given last year, so it was probably well worth what we paid…

I enjoyed the preview for the new Will Ferrell film (Semi-Pro), so that could be my next venture to the city of expensive drinks and popcorn…

…is what I said when my friend Mike told me to hold the position for 30 more seconds…

I’ve just been down at Wanda doing some fitness training with a couple of the guys from church. One of them is a bit of a personal trainer, and he’s been taking some of the guys out for a while now. I’ve been meaning to join them, but tonight was the first time I actually made it.

I’m really excited, because I was able to run quite well on the sand, and able to keep up (mostly) with the pace of the various exercises we did. The water was a really nice temperature, so we cooled off at the end of our run with a quick dip, then went up to the park for some boxing.

I could hear the Rocky theme music playing the whole time (in my head), but unfortunately it didn’t help my technique too much.

The only real downside was that I was eaten alive by biting insects, so now I have some lovely big lumps all over my back, arms, neck and legs.

Bring on next Thursday!

I support Everton in the English Premier League, and this week we sold a player who never really got going for us in the few years we had him in the team. He struggled to get regular game time, and just never really seemed to fit into the side.

Despite all that, he had moments of real brilliance, and he seemed to be a really likeable guy. So in ‘memory’ of James McFadden, here are a couple of highlights, courtesy of my friend and yours – YouTube:

Goal vs Charlton in the last (?) minute of the game:

Goal vs France (for Scotland):

I hope he does well at Birmingham. They’re a low level side, who will be able to give him a good amount of playing time, which is what he wants. He could have easily just sat on the sidelines getting paid serious money to be a professional reserve, but he decided he’d rather go and get a regular game.

This is the video I was telling you guys about…

John Terry (Chelsea captain) in a game against Arsenal last year: